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Today, you need...
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** PLEASE, Have your homework out on your desk
and ready for me to check! **Slide2
Quick Debrief
Tell someone close to you:How did you use what we learned about Formalist Theory to analyze The Giving Tree?I’ll be coming around to stamp homework.Slide3
Let’s review quick...
Why did we use the tinted sunglasses analogy to help explain critical literary theory?How is Reader’s Response Theory different from Formalist Theory?
If you finish early...Why do you think we talked about Reader’s Response and Formalist Theory first?Are either of these theories more important or valid than the other? Be able to explain your answer.Slide4
So, I overheard something yesterday...
Student A: Why do we have to do this?Student B: Do what?Student A: Look at this movie and that book in all these different ways.Student B: She said it in the PowerPoint, I think.Student A:
Yeah, I know, but I still don’t get why.That is an important, and incredibly valid question.Let’s talk about it.Slide5
“For knowledge isn’t just something we acquire; it’s something we are or hope to become. Knowledge is what constitutes our relationship to ourselves and to our world, for it is the lens through which we view ourselves and the world.
Change the lens and you change both the view and the viewer. This principle is what makes knowledge at once so frightening and so liberating, so painful and so utterly, utterly joyful.” — Lois Tyson, 1999This is why.Slide6
New Historicist Theory
An IntroductionSlide7
New Historicist Theory
considers historical context present at time of publication and in the text’s setting∴ meaning changes based on society, politics, economics, and culture of both time periods
requires outside research
Source:
Historic Houses AssociationSlide8
How can you apply this theory?
Try asking questions like…What global, national, and local events were important…at the time of publication?at the time in which the story is set?
How might those events have influenced the text?Slide9
Application to Maleficent
Make some inferences.What’s the setting of this text? What do we know about that time period in history? (Is extra research needed?)
Why is this setting significant to the story being told?What do we know about our modern society?
Why is it important that this (markedly different) retelling was produced today? Slide10
An Introduction
Marxist TheorySlide11
Marxist Theory
social class mattersaffects economic, political, and social advantages
impacts beliefs, values, perceptions, and ways of thinkingpower struggles are significant
highlight conflicts
between “haves” and “have nots”
∴ meaning is made by exploring
who has power and why
economic power
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social-class membership
societal organizationSlide12
How can you apply this theory?
Try asking questions like…Who/What struggles for power? Why?*How does the social class of the characters play a role?*__
What widespread (or dominant) beliefs are present in the text? Are
there other beliefs that clash with them?Slide13
Application to Maleficent
Social groupsPlot characters using a social ladderPrimary power struggles?
* any conflicts that could be “class” conflictsOn your own...Think about your own social position, either at IHS or in our American society. How has that impacted your reading?Slide14
Your turn!
(Re)read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.Analyze the text using what you’ve learned about the New Historicist and Marxist Theories and our class models that analyze Maleficent.Whatever you don’t finish in class is homework.
So, make good use of your time!